Risen from dead

06.03.2012

Bionor Pharma ASA’s development of an HIV vaccine is back on track. In mid-February, the Oslo-based company announced positive results from a Phase IIb study. When combined with antiretroviral treatment, the Vacc-4x vaccine knocked down the viral load in infected patients by 64%. Bionor had already lost hope for the vaccine, and its development was discontinued in 2010 after a previous study failed. Several weeks later, a US researcher reported that the vaccine triggered a plunge in viral load, and levels in patients did not swiftly climb when they were taken off of it. Those results revived Bionor’s hopes, and spurred the company to start the latest confirmatory trial. The positive news makes “a partnering process a natural next step” Bionor announced. The firm is now planning three different new studies for its vaccine.

Oslo – Norwegian cancer specialist Clavis Pharma ASA announced yesterday that its US-based development partner Clovis Oncology for CP-4126 has signed an agreement with Ventana Medical Systems, Inc. to develop a companion...

Oslo/Levanger – A report released by the Research Council of Norway (RCN) proposes setting up a national biobank company in Norway. After analysing ethical, judicial and political arguments, the study ordered by the Norwegian...

Cancer drug developer Clavis Pharma ASA (Oslo) has appointed Olav Hellebø as its new CEO. Hellebø, who joined Clavis Pharma from UCB at the beginning of February, is an experienced pharmaceutical executive who has held senior...

Oslo/Boulder – Norwegian drugmaker Clavis Pharma has inked a cancer drug development deal worth around US$380m with US-based Clovis Oncology, a newly formed oncology company led by former Pharmion Corporation executives. The deal...

Oslo/Berlin – Shares of Norwegian drug company Algeta ASA have gone through the roof following the announcement that Bayer-Schering Pharma AG in Germany has secured the global commercialisation rights for Alpharadin for over...

Oslo – Prof. Harald Stenmark, head of the Centre for Cancer Biomedicine at the Norwegian Radium Hospital, has received one of the Advanced Grants distributed by the European Research Council. The oncologist will now receive...

Oslo – Clavis Pharma ASA, a Norwegian drug developer focused on cancer therapies, has reported that it has received EUR14m (NOK 129m) in additional funding through a private placement of 10.7 million shares led by Carnegie ASA...